The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Cardiff region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Developer
Rank 53 32 56
Rank change year-on-year
-21 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 14 22 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 2.518% 4.989% 1.742%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.550% 5.069% 1.799%
Number of salaries quoted 14 22 10
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -16.66%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Job Titles
Cardiff
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
549 434 556
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 98.74% 98.41% 96.86%
Number of salaries quoted 485 407 518
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £24,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Developer
South Wales

Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Software Developer across the Cardiff region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Cardiff Software Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Developer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Software Developer across the Cardiff region.

Cardiff Software Developer Salary Trend

Software Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Developer across the Cardiff region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cardiff Software Developer Salary Histogram

Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff region that cited Software Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Software Developer in their job title.

1 30 (73.17%) C++
2 29 (70.73%) Finance
3 28 (68.29%) Oracle
4 25 (60.98%) SQL
5 21 (51.22%) Agile Software Development
6 18 (43.90%) SQL Server
7 12 (29.27%) .NET
8 9 (21.95%) C#
9 8 (19.51%) ASP.NET
9 8 (19.51%) Advertising
10 7 (17.07%) VC++
11 3 (7.317%) SOA
11 3 (7.317%) VB.NET
11 3 (7.317%) HTML
11 3 (7.317%) OO
12 2 (4.878%) Scrum
12 2 (4.878%) MVC
12 2 (4.878%) WCF
12 2 (4.878%) Continuous Integration
12 2 (4.878%) VB
12 2 (4.878%) CSS
12 2 (4.878%) E-Commerce
12 2 (4.878%) TDD
12 2 (4.878%) Retail
12 2 (4.878%) VB6
13 1 (2.439%) Lucene
13 1 (2.439%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (2.439%) Ajax
13 1 (2.439%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (2.439%) .NET Framework

Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff region that cited Software Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Software Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (29.27%) .NET
2 8 (19.51%) ASP.NET
3 3 (7.317%) HTML
4 2 (4.878%) WCF
4 2 (4.878%) CSS
5 1 (2.439%) Lucene
5 1 (2.439%) Ajax
5 1 (2.439%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.439%) Flash
5 1 (2.439%) XHTML
5 1 (2.439%) STL
5 1 (2.439%) XML
5 1 (2.439%) MFC
5 1 (2.439%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 1 (2.439%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (2.439%) WPF
5 1 (2.439%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.439%) SharePoint
1 1 (2.439%) Umbraco
1 1 (2.439%) Sitecore CMS
1 1 (2.439%) Apache Solr
1 1 (2.439%) Windows Azure
1 1 (2.439%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.439%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (43.90%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.439%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (2.439%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.439%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.439%) Visual Studio
1 1 (2.439%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 29 (70.73%) Finance
2 8 (19.51%) Advertising
3 2 (4.878%) Retail
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.439%) Windows
1 1 (2.439%) Android
1 1 (2.439%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.439%) Windows 8
1 1 (2.439%) Windows Phone 8
1 1 (2.439%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (51.22%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (7.317%) SOA
2 3 (7.317%) OO
3 2 (4.878%) Scrum
3 2 (4.878%) MVC
3 2 (4.878%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (4.878%) E-Commerce
3 2 (4.878%) TDD
4 1 (2.439%) OOD
4 1 (2.439%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 30 (73.17%) C++
2 25 (60.98%) SQL
3 9 (21.95%) C#
4 7 (17.07%) VC++
5 3 (7.317%) VB.NET
6 2 (4.878%) VB
6 2 (4.878%) VB6
7 1 (2.439%) Java
7 1 (2.439%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.439%) PHP
Vendors
1 28 (68.29%) Oracle
2 1 (2.439%) Sitecore